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Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User
(hackaday.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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The main issue is that some things still refuse to work with Wayland properly, as it requires a rewrite for certain cases due to a different architecture.
Overall, Wayland is superior, but the transition is not complete yet and some things are harder to adapt than others.
Totally fair take.
I want to correct “refuse to work” with “do not work” but it is a completely valid take that some Wayland stewards resist adding certain functionality (especially the GNOME folks).
I will take issue with “requires a rewrite”. Wayland is designed to be extended. It is more that things need to be added than fixed. Almost all the issues are due to security in Wayland. You need explicit support to do things (whereas X11 apps just do them and nobody stops them—even when they should).